rm -fr not deleting stuff

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2015-03-07 at 17:27 -0800, CWSIV JUNO wrote:
> Are you sure there are no files open in those directories?

Yes.

> In which case your bumping up against user vs root, a non issue in
> systems where they are separate.

They are separate in this system (a Linux system), and the rm is running
as root.

> If you still have problems you can boot your system to Knoppix and mount
> the partition rewrite and work from there.  BTW when was the last time
> you did fsck on that drive??

The drive is healthy.

Running rm again removes more files, and four or five iterations will
remove them all.

Testing the same file structure against "real" rm showed no issues; the
busybox rm seems to have tree depth limitations.

Regards, K.

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